COSTA MESA, Calif., Sept. 7, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), the world leader in Fibre Channel host bus adapters and embedded storage switches, and a provider of intelligent building blocks for the storage networking industry, today announced that IBM has selected a custom version of Emulex's new SAN Storage Switch product for a new IBM entry level storage switch offering.
"Emulex worked closely with the IBM Systems and Technology Group to leverage Emulex's SAN Storage Switch product into a unique and highly competitive entry-level SAN switch solution offering: The IBM TotalStorage Storage Switch L10," said Jim McCluney, president and chief operating officer, Emulex Corp. "We're delighted that IBM is taking advantage of the inherent simplicity and affordability of our SAN Storage Switch, and the fact that they've targeted it for use with such a broad spectrum of their TotalStorage solution product line underscores the value proposition of our new SAN Storage switches."
Emulex's SAN Storage Switches are based on the company's award-winning and field-proven InSpeed(tm) technology, and were specifically designed to meet entry-level switch users' requirements for low-cost and absolute simplicity. IBM currently plans to make the TotalStorage Storage Switch L10 available to its customers later this month, and has targeted it for use with a broad range of its storage solutions, including the IBM servers, disk storage and tape libraries.
For more information on the Emulex SAN Storage Switches please visit www.emulex.com.
About Emulex
Emulex Corporation is the world leader in Fibre Channel HBAs and delivers a broad range of intelligent building blocks for next generation storage networking systems. Emulex was named one of Forbes Magazine's 25 Fastest Growing Technology Companies, and ranked number 15 in Deloitte & Touche's 2003 Technology Fast 50.
The world's leading server and storage providers rely on Emulex HBAs, embedded storage switching and I/O controller products to build reliable, scalable and high performance storage solutions. The Emulex award-winning product families, including its LightPulse(tm) HBAs and InSpeedTM embedded storage switching products, are based on internally developed ASIC, firmware and software technologies, and offer customers high performance, scalability, flexibility and reduced total cost of ownership. The company's products have been selected by the world's leading server and storage providers, including Dell, EMC, Fujitsu Ltd., Fujitsu Siemens, Groupe Bull, HP, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, NEC, Network Appliance, Quantum Corp., StorageTek, Sun Microsystems, Unisys and Xyratex. In addition, Emulex includes industry leaders Brocade, Computer Associates, Intel, McDATA, Microsoft and VERITAS among its strategic partners. Corporate headquarters are located in Costa Mesa, California. News releases and other information about Emulex Corporation are available at http://www.emulex.com.
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